Tom Noir’s Art Direction: I want a naked man, and he’s playing with these two blue balls. No, no, I’m saying he’s handling two massive globes. Don’t make ’em the same size, one is bigger than the other. Have him straining, concentrating intensely. Look, I don’t see what’s so funny about this.Published 1968

I’m mystified, or rather intrigued, by the word ‘gormless’. I’ve intuited what it means through exposure to George Formby and his ukulele. But what’s the opposite of gormless? Gormy? Gormed? I haven’t a clue.

The man with the planetary underarm deodorants looks rather like Australian actor Ray Barrett. He was the star of hit oil-drama ‘The Troubleshooters’ and a frequent guest-star on other shows, but for those of us who were kids in the 60s he’s the voice of Mighty Titan from ‘Stingray’.

Now that I’ve seen this I will never be able to take the Aquaphibians seriously again.